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2012 Homes That Hit Home: The 12 Best (and Worst) Real Estate Properties in Film

For many movie-goers, 2012's film slate hit close to home. Especially if they sat in theaters admiring cinema's best real estate of the year. Skyfall, The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises — many of the year's biggest blockbusters also boasted sprawling mansions that movie-goers would spend hours drooling over in their theater seats. But which films brought us the most — and least — coveted homes and properties of the year? Go ahead — make yourself at home and scroll down to find out!

Description: The perfect retreat for when you literally need to retreat from a deranged former colleague who’s trying to kill you and your boss.

Amenities: Long vacant — its owners were killed in a climbing accident — this is a fixer-upper to be sure. But it comes with substantial acreage, a car park for your Aston Martin, propane tanks for heating and the construction of makeshift bombs, a wall-length mirror, Reformation Era subterranean tunnels for a clandestine exit, a vintage hunting-rifle armory, and the services of a crusty old gamekeeper.

Description: This sprawling, private kingdom — built with Europe's finest golden materials — boasts a history as rich as the food served in the castle's fully staffed kitchen.

Amenities: Indoor landscaping (in the form of a mysterious, single rose), a large library to charm visitors, a 3D-friendly vast ballroom with high ceilings, and a roomy dungeon to host your future father-in-law.

Price: $47 million — otherwise known as Beauty and the Beast 3D's total box office cume.

Description: Escape Gotham's violent underground with this beautiful mansion, once home to billionaire Bruce Wayne and many exorbitant parties gone very, very wrong.

Amenities: A fully manicured lawn, a friendly butler who knows more about you than you know yourself, a subterranean cave for an undercover vigilante filled with technologically advanced weaponry a basement that leads nowhere.

Description: This charming hotel is happy to host retirees both enthusiastic about travel and extremely racist. Don't be distracted by its cracks — this property is perfect for anyone looking to invest in a fixer-upper!

Amenities: A thriving social scene for the elderly, local cuisine that will give your taste buds a bit too much of a kick.

Description: Right in the heart of Panem's Capitol, the Hunger Games' training center bristles with excitement. Be one of the first to scope out the Games' talent first-hand, and stay for a drink — if a tribute doesn't shoot it out of your hand first.

Amenities: On-location stylists and mentors, an underground gymnasium, an adjoining apartment complex filled with windows to longingly peer out of.

Property: The mansion built by billionaires Jackie and David Siegel, also known as Versailles

Location: Orlando, Fla.

Description: This real-life 90,000-square foot mansion — the largest in the U.S. — is strictly for the 1 percent, offering more luxury than practicality. But that's okay, because you're rich! (Until, of course, you're not.)

Amenities: Two movie theaters, a bowling alley, nine kitchens, three swimming pools, a baseball diamond, a health spa, 30 bathrooms, and other luxury items that, yes, actually do exist in a real home.

Price: Considering its windows cost $4 million, you don't even want to know.

Description: Looking for an isolated weekend getaway where no one can hear you scream for your four college friends? You're in luck! This cabin — located in the middle of the woods — is the perfect location for nights in with a case of beer and a family of zombies.

Amenities: A cellar full of charming, ancient trinkets. Look, but don't read.